General Surgical Instruments

Front 1

Back 1

# 10 Blade

For making skin incision, attaches to a # 3 handle.

Front 2

Back 2

#11 Blade

Used for making incisions for laparoscopic trocars.

Front 3

Back 3

#15 Blade

Multi-purpose blade, used on the #3 or the #7 handle.

Front 4

Back 4

#3 Knife Handle

Used w/ the 10, 11, & 15 blades.

Front 5

Back 5

#7 Knife Handle

Use w/ a 15 blade

Front 6

Back 6

Adson w/ Teeth
(skin forceps)

Used for grasping, common forcep for use in skin suturing.

Front 7

Back 7

Adson Brown Forceps

Used for grasping, commonly used in cosmetic & ENT surgery.

Front 8

Back 8

Bonney Forceps

Heavy pickup used for grasping the fascia to close the peritoneum.

Front 9

Back 9

Debakey Forceps

Used to grasp more delicate structures such as vessels, bowel, and soft tissue

Front 10

Back 10

Rat Toothed Forceps
(Toothed Pickups)

Commonly used to grasp bone or when closing the belly button site for laparoscopic surgery

Front 11

Back 11

Russian Forceps

Atraumatic multipurpose grasper

Front 12

Back 12

Allis

Used for grasping soft tissue

Front 13

Back 13

Babcock

Used for grasping soft tissue, lymph nodes, and bowel tissue

Front 14

Back 14

Carmault

Larger than a Kelly and the same size as a Pean, the Carmault w/ its characteristic jaws is used to clamp bowel

Front 15

Back 15

Kelly
(Snap)

The most basic of the clamps, multi-purpose

Front 16

Back 16

Mosquito Clamp

Used for clamping and dissection, smaller than the Kelly pictured above it, the Mosquito has a similar jaw.

Front 17

Back 17

Right Angle

Often used to pass things under structures or separate and dissect soft tissue structures

Front 18

Back 18

Sponge Stick

Often has a Ratex (sponge) folded in the jaw for blunt dissection & dabbing in abdominal surgeries

Front 19

Back 19

Tonsil
(Scnnitt)

Used with silk or vicryl to tie off the end for ligating structures.

Front 20

Back 20

Towel Clamp

Used for grasping skin and clamping towels/drapes

Front 21

Back 21

Non-perforating Towel Clamp

Used to clamp surgical drapes

Front 22

Back 22

Army-Navy
(USA)

Used for exposing superficial wound

Front 23

Back 23

Deaver

Used for deep retraction

Front 24

Back 24

Senn Retractor
(Senn Rake)

Available with sharp or dull teeth, used to expose superficial wounds

Front 25

Back 25

Goelet

Used for retracting superficial tissue

Front 26

Back 26

Isreal retractor
(Isreal rake)

Used for retracting deep tissue, also used in orthopedic surgery

Front 27

Back 27

Bodywall retractor
(Mayo Bodywall)

Used for large open abdominal surgeries

Front 28

Back 28

Richardson retractor

Common retractor available in double and single ended and a variety of sizes

Front 29

Back 29

Weitlaner

Self retaining retractor available in various sizes and with sharp or dull teeth

Front 30

Back 30

Curved Mayo scissors

Larger blades than Metzenbaums and often used for cutting tough tissue

Front 31

Back 31

Straight Mayo scissors

Multi-purpose scissor, most often used for cutting suture

Front 32

Back 32

Electrocautery Pencil (ESU)
(Bovie)

Cuts and coagulates tissue, requires a grounding pad for the patient

Front 33

Back 33

Poole Suction

Used for suctioning large volumes of irrigation fluid from the abdominal cavity

Front 34

Back 34

Yankauer Suction

Common general suction tip for suctioning blood, fluids, and smoke

Front 35

Back 35

Mayo Needle Holder
(Needle Driver)

Most common used needle holder for holding heavy suture needles

Front 36

Back 36

Laparoscopic Trocar

Used for introduction of the port into the abdomen but then removed to allow instruments to be passed through

Front 37

Back 37

Laparoscopic Grasper
(Debakey Grasper)

Used for grasping bowel

Front 38

Back 38

Laparoscopic Curved Dissector
(Maryland Grasper, Dolphin Nose)

Can be attached to cautery cord and often used to ligate and dissect during cholecystectomy surgery

Front 39

Back 39

Gelpi Retractor

Self-retaining, used for superficial wound exposure

Front 40

Back 40

Kocher

Used for grasping heavy tissue or bone